This document provides an analysis of capitalism in Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. It discusses how Crusoe exemplifies early capitalism through his self-sufficiency, record keeping, and employing Man Friday to work. Crusoe stockpiles goods and sets up production on the island, acting as the "true prototype of the British colonist." The document also notes how Marx critiqued Defoe's work from his own economic perspective, seeing Crusoe's experiences as symbolic of capitalism.

1. M.K.BHAVNAGAR
UNIVERSITY
NAME: BALDANIYA VANITA V.
CLASS: M.A. SEM:1
ROLL NO:- :30
PAPER:2(THE NEO-CLASSICAL
LITERATURE)
TOPIC: CAPITALISM IN ROBINSON
CRUSOE

2. “ Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalism
hero, He is a self- made man who accept
objective reality and then fashions it to his
needs through the work ethic, common
sense, resilience, technology, and it need
be racism and imperialism. “
INTRODUCTION:

3.  These techniques are used everywhere in the great,
pioneering novels that defoe wrote a few years later.
The first of them, Robinson Crusoe, is an anatomy of
early capitalism wrapped up in a Boy’s own adventure.
Crusoe on his island, stockpiling good, keeping
records and setting Man Friday to work, is the
eyewitness reporter of his own life.

4. He is also, James Joyce put it,
“the true prototype of the British
Colonist”
 The key word there is British. Through
the title page of the novel says that
Crusoe came from York, His character
was partly based-as early readers knew
on the Scottish castaway Alexander
Selkirk.

5. The Scottish strand in Crusoe is a tacit but
telling reminder of how the empire became
after 1707.
It was the prospect of participating in
Colonial adventures from which they had
been excluded by the English that
persuaded many members of the Scottish
elite to accept the union.

6. The novel that most brilliantly exploits eyewitness
realism is also the one that deals most extensively with
union-related issues colonel Jack stands out in Defoe’s
out for its vivid account of public events.
 In the simplest terms, capitalism can be defined- as
the condition of possessing capital the original funds or
principal of an individual, company, or provide the basis
for financial and economic operations’.

7. The term capitalism also describes an ideology
which favors the existence of capitalists.
 Robinson Crusoe is a bourgeois puritan, but
on his island his preoccupation.
Labor, row materials, production, colonialism,
shrewdness, self- discipline, and profit are those
of the proto capitalist.

8. He is the true prototype of the British
Colonist, as Friday is the symbol of the subject
races.
“Karl Marx”, nothing that :Robinson Crusoe’s
experiences are a favorite theme with political
economists,
“ took the opportunity in his capital, to
critique Defoe’s fantasy from his own very
different perspective.